Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa

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Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa is written by Everisto Benyera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978776241 (ISBN 10) and 9781978776241 (ISBN 13).

The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and suggesting how they can be enhanced. The main contribution of the book is an ethnographic investigation of how post-conflict communities in parts of Southern Africa use their local resources to forge a future after mass violence. The way in which Namibia’s Herero and Zimbabwe’s Ndebele dealt with their respective genocides is a major contribution of the book. The focus of the book is on two Southern African countries that never experienced institutionalized transitional justice as dispensed in post-apartheid South Africa via the famed Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We answer the question: how have communities healed and reconciled after the end of protracted violence and gross human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Namibia? We depart from statetist, top-down, one-size fits all approaches to transitional justice and investigate bottom-up approaches.